Truly humbled and honored to receive the top 1% recognition in spine research for our efforts. Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins Children's Center #surgeon-scientist #NIH R01 #clinician-scholar #collaboration

Beautiful San Diego. Outstanding #IMAST2024 meeting.

Excited to be heading to Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) for Adult Reconstruction Fellowship! And congratulations to my co-residents on all of their fellowship matches today! HSS ARJR CJRC

Beautiful morning ⁦Johns Hopkins Medicine⁩

“Deny deny deny” - what insurance medical directors are told to expedite care reviews. Great article by ⁦ProPublica⁩ ⁦⁦Hopkins Business of Health Initiative⁩ propublica.org/article/cigna-…

I still can't get over this exchange between Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Witty. Semantics aside, UnitedHealth still has 90,000 physicians who have a financial incentive to work with, and look out for, UnitedHealth. That is no small thing.

Great study showing how #patients are quite #price #sensitive to copay of life saving drugs such as statins.

Fantastic ⁦AO Spine⁩ KF Degen dinner in #Bangkok #GSC2024. Lucky to be part of such an amazing group. ⁦Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Medicine #ortho #neurosurgery #spine

Congrats to our outstanding graduating Chief Residents. ⁦ Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics⁩ ⁦Johns Hopkins Medicine⁩ 2 of the 4 are future #spine #surgery superstars

1/ More great work from Adrian Diaz : How well do CMS Star Ratings track with surgical quality? TL/DR: just as much variation within star rating as there is across. A closer look... jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…

My inspiration as a trauma surgeon stems from being a survivor. Simar Bajaj did an amazing job of peeling back my personal and professional life in a raw and authentic way. Grateful to him, Jason Andrew, and the The Guardian. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Congrats to an outstanding #ortho #leader Jim Ficke Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics Johns Hopkins Medicine

UnitedHealth members are 15x more likely to be diagnosed with diabetic cataracts than patients in traditional Medicare. Why? Medicare pays insurers up to $2700 more annually per diagnosed patient. So much of the healthcare business is just optimizing the billing system. via @wsj

It's well known that lower income people tend to suffer much worse health. Is poverty at the heart of this disparity, and, if so, could a large cash transfer help close this gap? We examine an RCT that provided 1000 low income participants $1000/month for 3 years. We find…

1% of people are responsible for 24% of the health spending in America and 5% of people are responsible for just over half.

Proud to celebrate the graduation of our #outstanding #spine #surgery fellows. #mentorship #education #lifelong #learning #orthopaedics #neurosurgery Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics

I’ve got a new piece in JAMA w/ Zirui Song and Jane Zhu. We argue that the shift to value-based payment (VBP) is an under-appreciated driver of corporate consolidation & the decline of small independent physician practices. 🧵